Saya Tomioka, a Los Angeles-based yoga instructor, lost her boyfriend, Griffin Madden, in the tragic Oakland warehouse fire last Friday. On Sunday, she wrote a Facebook post that asked users to track down a photo that was snapped of the couple in New York City the year before.

“This morning I remembered the first time I went to Times Square, June 16 of 2015,” she said. “Griffin and I just finished watching The Book of Mormon on Broadway. I remember tears swelling my eyes because the city was so beautiful and amidst all the lights, I got to look at the brightest light of all, my sweetie. I cried, and we kissed. Some random photographer captured this very moment, this very kiss.... I never got his name, and he just simply showed us the single beautiful snap shot that he was able to capture.”

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The photo showed the couple kissing amidst the bustling chaos of Times Square.

The post was shared 387 times and was picked up by Frank Somerville, an anchor at KTVU in Oakland. Somerville has more than 500,000 Facebook fans, and the photo went viral, with more than 3,600 shares. Within days, Tomioka found the man who took the meaningful photo more than a year earlier.

The New York City-based photographer, Arken Avan, found the photo on his hard drive after digging through more than 200,000 images.

"More than 300 people shared this post and i decided to pull out my archive, and wasn't sure if that was me, and if i actually have this photograph, cause it was more than year ago and it's more that 200,000 pictures in my street archive," the photographer said on Facebook. Luckily, he found it and passed it onto Tomioka.

She shared the image on Facebook next to a meaningful message.

“Life is so strange. I've lost you, but I've never felt stronger in my life. Through our many years of love and growth, I learned how to be strong from you,” she wrote. “Your light touched so so so many people, and you taught/will continue to teach us to live our lives just as fully, youthfully and kindly as you did. I promise you that I will never stop dancing; I'll dance even harder. I will never stop laughing; I'll laugh even louder. I will never stop loving; I'll love even prouder.”